After months of silence from Donald Trump's team, Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) first contacts the future US president.

Merkel had congratulated the Republican on a telephone call for the election on Thursday and told him that she was looking forward to welcoming him to the G-20 summit in Hamburg at the beginning of July at the latest, Vizeregungsprecher Georg Streiter said on Friday in Berlin. It remained open when Chancellor Trump was to visit Washington for the first time on 20 January. The Foreign Office demanded early answers from the Trump team about the future foreign policy course.

As one of the first leaders worldwide, Trump also called on British Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday. She had received an urgent invitation from Trump.

After Merkel's telephone conversation with Trump, Streiter left open the question as to who the conversation was going from, as did the conversation. He also did not comment on what the designated US President had said to Merkel. The Federal Chancellor had agreed to the close cooperation with the designated US President on the basis of the "traditionally very good and friendly relations between the two countries".

The CDU chairman had already declared on Wednesday after the US election that she would work with Trump on the condition that Germany and America would continue to respect the values ​​of democracy, freedom, justice and respect for minorities. Trump had often expressed massive opposition in the election campaign. If Trump does not come to Germany before July and Merkel does not travel to Washington, the first meeting of the Chancellor with the new US president will probably be at the G-7 summit in Italy.

There is contact to Trumps team

Streiter said on the background of uncertainties about the Trumps course, there were certainly contacts between the German side and the team of the future president.

The spokesman of Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (SPD), Martin Schäfer, criticized that many experts in Washington had wondered who trumped foreign policy and what his team looked like. Even today patience is still necessary. One must try to live with the question marks. Uncertainty, however, is a source of uncertainty, Schäfer criticized. The Foreign Office soon expects responses from the surrounding Trumps.

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The Federal Commissioner for the United States, Jürgen Hardt (CDU), is looking for a consultant Trumps in the coming week on a trip to North America. The Foreign Office said Hardt was in New York from Wednesday to Friday and then in Halifax in Canada. There, he took part in an international security conference in which newly elected Republican members of the US Congress could be present. In New York, Hardt conducted bilateral talks. At first, the "Rheinische Post" reported on Reisehardt.

Peter Beyer (CDU), the transatlantic expert of the Union, also wants to discuss with future leaders of US foreign policy, according to the newspaper in Washington in December. The contacts have to be made new because during the US election campaign, all German attempts to establish contacts into the Trump camp through diplomatic channels were stuck.